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Read Mike’s story a few comments down.

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To sum it up, iPhone wins.

Going to jump in with a quick post on Garmin’s latest announcement on their new phone.

I’m a happy owner of an iPhone, but when talking to a friend yesterday and the topic of smart phones came up, I struggled to recommend anything else other then the Treo he already owns.

Well, now I may have a new recommendation for him.

The Garmin Nuvifone has a clean exterior look to it, same form factor as the iPhone (at least it looks that way, of course I haven’t seen one of these yet), the phone app looks similar to the iphone, and seems that it has a full web browser on board. Direct compitition with the iPhone? Yes.

A few things pop into mind right off the hop. I’ve never owned a Garmin GPS device, so bare with me if they already tackled these;

1) Does it play music? I hate to say it, but after the iPhone, I wouldn’t consider owning a phone that doesn’t play music.

2) What engine is the browser going to be based on? I’m dreading that 2008 is going to be the start of a mobile browser war. IE, Safari, what’s next?

3) Will it support flash?
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No, I’m kidding.

Wow. Downtime sucks yo! And apparently, so does my host! Well, not entirely. My host, cpphosting.net, somehow managed to lose my account. Don’t ask how or why, but regardless after some harasing on AIM, he managed to get me back online. Luckily my good friend, Josh hooked me up with a premo cronjob to backup my site every night, so I had a full backup from the day it went down, and upon restoration had the site back up in 1/2 hour. So that was actually about 2 weeks of downtime. I wasn’t too worried about it, but I eventually did need the site back up and running.

In the mean time, I have been working on a few other projects, most which I cannot mention yet, so I’ll let ya guess. The good news is that I starting working on a redesign again. The bad news is I scrapped the whole old-new design and started from scratch again. This time, I am not re-using any code. This site was coded so long ago that as I was redesigning it, I ended up re-coding a lot of it more effiecently with new stuff that I have learnt in the past few years, so this time around I am only reusing the database, everything will be new. There was waaay too many bugs in here anyways.

Another thing that I have decided to do is get some good Web2.0 integration going on. I have recently started using del.icio.us and flickr, so instead of the (buggy/functionless) gallery that I built, I am going to just use flickr, as well as have some del.icio.us bookmarks up as well. It’s gonna take some time to learn how to use their APIs, but I think in the end it will speed up development. I also plan on messing around with some AJAX, though nothing big as there is really no need for it here. I’ve been using it a lot lately and I really like it, though I am still tweaking my AJAX toolkit to get it perfected.

The next totally exciting news I just read, my favourite Indie band, Death Cab for Cutie is coming to Winnipeg! I already saw them in Montreal in October, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be scoping them out in my home town again! Wow, first I get a weekend, then news of my favourite band coming to town… what else could I ask for, besides maybe a bit of pink.

Lastly, I command you all to go out and buy a Logitech diNovo. I am sure everyone has looked at it on the Logitech web site and wished they could afford it. Well, I bought myself a birthday present! It’s still hurtin the bank, but wow is it ever amazing. I have yet to start tweaking everthing, but I have never used a better keyboard, and the MX1000 that comes with it is the best mouse I have used to date (MX510, you will always hold a place in my heart). So when those income tax cheques come in, and you finish paying off you’re credit card, spend that extra bit on the diNovo, you won’t regret it!

!– jdyck –!